For What It's Worth dei Buffalo Springfield, che racconta i disordini del coprifuoco di Sunset Strip del 1966 avvenuti a Hollywood in California.Sunset Strip curfew riots - Wikipedia

Suppongo che dovrebbe essere 'Bed of Roses' di Bon Jovi:

Sono seduto qui, sprecato e ferito

Su questo vecchio pianoforte

Tentando di catturare

Il momento di questa mattina che non conosco

Perché una bottiglia di vodka

è ancora conficcata nella mia testa

E una bionda mi ha fatto venire gli incubi

Penso che sia ancora nel mio letto

Come sogno i film

Che non faranno di me quando sarò morto

Con un pugno di ferro

Mi sveglio e bacio alla francese il mattino

Mentre una banda musicale continua

il suo ritmo nella mia testa

Mentre stiamo parlando

di tutte le cose che desidero credere

dell'amore e della verità e di quello che tu significhi per me

E la verità è, baby sei tutto ciò di cui ho bisogno

Voglio stenderti in un letto di rose

Per stanotte dormo su un letto di chiodi

Oh, I wanna be just as close as the Holy Ghost is

And lay you down on a bed of roses

Well I'm so far away

That each step that I take is on my way home

A king's ransom in dimes I'd given every night

Just to see through this payphone

Still I non ho più tempo

Oppure è difficile passare

Finché l'uccello sul filo mi riporta da te

Chiudo gli occhi e sussurro

Baby blind love is true

Voglio stenderti in un letto di rose

Per stanotte dormo su un letto di chiodi

Oh, I wanna be just as close as the Holy Ghost is

And lay you down on a bed of roses

Well, this hotel bar's hangover whiskey's gone dry

The barkeeper's wigig stoked

And she's giving me the eye

I might have said yeah

But I laughed so hard I think I died, ooh yeah

Ora mentre chiudi gli occhi

Sappi che penserò a te

Mentre la mia amante mi chiama

Per stare di nuovo sotto i suoi riflettori

Non sarò solo

Ma sai che non significa che non mi senta solo

Non ho niente da dimostrare

Perché è te che morirei per difendere

Voglio stenderti in un letto di rose

Per stanotte dormo su un letto di chiodi

Oh, Voglio essere vicino come lo è lo Spirito Santo

E stenderti

Voglio stenderti su un letto di rose

Per stanotte dormo su un letto di chiodi

Voglio essere vicino come lo è lo Spirito Santo

E stenderti

Su un letto di rose

Fonte: LyricFind

Cantautori: Jon Bon Jovi

Testo di Bed of Roses © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

Spandau Ballet, “True”.

So true funny how it seems
Always in time, but never in line for dreams
Head over heels when toe to toe
This is the sound of my soul
This is the sound
I bought a ticket to the world
But now I've come back again
Why do I find it hard to write the next line?
Oh, I want the truth to be said
I know this much is true
I know this much is true
With a thrill in my head and a pill on my tongue
Dissolve the nerves that have just begun
Listening to Marvin all night long
This is the sound of my soul
This is the sound
Always slipping from my hands
Sand's a time of its own
Take your seaside arms and write the next line
Oh, I want the truth to be known
I know this much is true
I know this much is trueI bought a ticket to the world
But now I've come back again
Why do I find it hard to write the next line?
Oh, I want the truth to be said
I know this much is true
I know this much is true
This much is true
This much is true
This much is true
I know, I know, I know this much is true
This much is true
This much is true
This much is true
This much is true
I know this much is true
This much is true
This much is true
I know this much is true
This much is true
This much is true

Tom Waits

He went down down down
and the devil called him by name
he went down down down
hangin' onto the back of a train
he went down down down
this boy went solid down
always chewed tobacco
and the bathtub gin
always chewed tobacco
and the bathtub gin
he went down down down
this boy went solid down
he went down

Well he went down down down
and the jumped on his head
he went down down down
stayin' in a broken down shed
he went down down down
sleepin' in the devil's bed
he went down down down
never listened to the words I said
he went down down down down
he went down

Well he went down down down
and the devil said where you been
he went down down down
he screamin' down around the bend
down down down
this boy went solid down

He was always cheatin'
and he always told lies
he was always cheatin'
and he always told lies
he went down down down
down down down
this boy went solid down
he went down

A lot of songs with disturbing lyrics (by contemporary standards) were released in the 1960s, but this one flat-out romanticizes domestic violence as the ultimate display of love:

He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)
Artist: The Crystals
Songwriters: Carole King / Gerry Goffin

He hit me
And it felt like a kiss
He hit me
But it didn't hurt me

He couldn't stand to hear me say
That I'd been with someone new,
And when I told him I had been untrue

He hit me
And it felt like a kiss
He hit me
And I knew he loved me

If he didn't care for me
I could have never made him mad
But he hit me,
And I was glad

Yes, he hit me
And it felt like a kiss
He hit me
And I knew I loved him
And then he took me in his arms
With all the tenderness there is,
And when he kissed me,
He made me his

I’ll also throw in this song sequel to It’s My Party, which is sadistic, gloating, and pathetic at the same time. In the original song, Johnny—whom the singer has been dating—disappears from her birthday party, only to make a grand re-entrance officially coupled up with another girl. We all know this one: He jilts her at her own birthday party and then cruelly makes a spectacle of himself with Judy.

The sequel: At a subsequent party, the tables are turned when Johnny, while kissing new love Judy, realizes he does love the song’s narrator after all and proves it—by jilting Judy this time and then punching someone. The jubilation is what makes this creepy.

Judy’s Turn to Cry
Artist: Lesley Gore
Songwriters: Beverly Ross / Edna Lewis

'Cause now it's Judy's turn to cry
Judy's turn to cry
Judy's turn to cry
'Cause Johnny's come back
To me

Aww when Judy left with Johnny at my party (my party)
And came back wearing his ring
I sat down and cried my eyes out
Now that was a foolish thing

'Cause now it's Judy's turn to cry
Judy's turn to cry
Judy's turn to cry
'Cause Johnny's come back
To me

Well it hurt me so to see them dance together
I felt like making a scene
Then my tears just felt like rain drops
'Cause Judy's smile was so mean

But now it's Judy's turn to cry
Judy's turn to cry
Judy's turn to cry
'Cause Johnny's come back
To me

Oh one night I saw them kissing at a party
So I kissed some other guy
Johnny jumped up and he hit him
'Cause he still loved me that's why

So now it's Judy's turn to cry
Judy's turn to cry
Judy's turn to cry
'Cause Johnny's come back
To me

So now it's Judy's turn to cry
Judy's turn to cry
Judy's turn to cry
'Cause Johnny's come back
To me

Not exactly the quote, but close:

Here: Billie Eilish - Bellyache

Sittin' all alone
Mouth full of gum
In the driveway
My friends aren't far
In the back of my car
Lay their bodies

Where's my mind
Where's my mind

They'll be here pretty soon
Lookin' through my room for the money
I'm bitin' my nails
I'm too young to go to jail
It's kinda funny

Where's my mind
Where's my mind
Where's my mind
Where's my mind

Maybe it's in the gutter where I left my lover
What an expensive fate
My V is for Vendetta
Thought that I'd feel better
But now I got a bellyache

Everything I do the way I wear my noose
Like a necklace
I wanna make 'em scared like I could be anywhere
Like I'm wreck-less

I lost my mind
I don't mind
Where's my mind
Where's my mind

Maybe it's in the gutter where I left my lover
What an expensive fate
My V is for Vendetta
Thought that I'd feel better
But now I got a bellyache

Maybe it's in the gutter where I left my lover
What an expensive fate
My V is for Vendetta
Thought that I'd feel better
But now I got a bellyache

Songwriters: Finneas O'Connell / Billie O'Connell

bellyache lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

““If I Die Young” by the Band Perry.

“If I die young bury me in satin
Lay me down on a bed of roses
Sink me in the river at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song
Uh oh uh oh”

Il testo è tratto da una canzoncina chiamata Someone You Loved, che è un brano scritto con altri quattro, e cantato dal cantautore scozzese Lewis Capaldi.

La canzone, uscita nel 2019, ha vinto il Grammy Award per la canzone dell'anno nel 2020. Ha anche vinto il Brit Award per il singolo britannico con MasterCard. Ha colpito l'oro anche nella classifica di Billboard, dove ha vinto il loro Music Award for The Best Selling Song of 2020. Prima di tutti questi notevoli risultati, Someone you love ha vinto il premio NRJ per la canzone internazionale dell'anno nel 2019.

Devo confessare che non avevo mai sentito parlare di questa canzone, figuriamoci ascoltarla, fino a 15 minuti fa, quando l'ho ascoltata due volte, ma sto andando su iTunes, così da poterla scaricare e ascoltarla molto di più. È una canzone fantastica.